The next launch info was issued by USA Softball and data and pictures courtesy of USA Softball…
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — USA Softball has just lately revealed the names of the athletes who’ve been chosen to take part in two upcoming worldwide softball occasions – the 2024 World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) Girls’s World Cup and Japan All-Star Sequence.
The Girls’s Nationwide Staff Choice Committee (WNTSC) has picked a complete of 16 gamers who will symbolize the Girls’s Nationwide Staff (WNT) within the WBSC Girls’s World Cup in Castions de Strada, Italy slated for July 15-21. As well as, the Girls’s Elite Staff will even have 16 gamers who will compete in opposition to Staff Japan within the Japan All-Star Sequence, going down from July 4-8.
The roster for the 2024 WBSC World Cup consists of Sis Bates (Washington), Maya Brady (UCLA), Ally Carda (UCLA), Mia Davidson (Mississippi State), Megan Faraimo (UCLA), Hannah Flippen (Utah), Rachel Garcia (UCLA), Danielle Gibson (Arkansas), Carley Hoover (LSU), Sahvanna Jaquish (LSU), Janae Jefferson (Texas), Tiare Jennings (Oklahoma), Amanda Lorenz (Florida), Haylie McCleney (Alabama), Dejah Mulipola (Arizona) and Jessie Warren (Florida State).
The 2024 WBSC World Cup roster consists of 4 athletes who have been a part of the 2020 U.S. Olympic crew and 6 members from the 2023 WBSC World Cup Group Stage that helped the Eagles qualify for the World Cup Finals. The crew additionally consists of two rookies making their debut within the Crimson, White and Blue, in addition to 5 athletes who’ve beforehand represented the U.S. both as a member of the USA Softball Junior Girls’s Nationwide Staff (JWNT) or WNT. The 16-player roster consists of 14 former student-athletes and two present student-athletes from 4 athletic conferences – Pac-12 (seven athletes), SEC (six athletes), Large 12 (two athletes) and ACC (one athlete). UCLA has probably the most illustration with 4 athletes adopted by LSU with two athletes. Different universities represented embody Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Florida State, Mississippi State, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah and Washington, with one athlete apiece.
The roster for the 2024 Japan All-Star Sequence consists of Jocelyn Alo (Oklahoma), Aliyah Andrews (LSU), Valerie Cagle (Clemson), NiJaree Canady (Stanford), Erin Coffel (Kentucky), Jayda Coleman (Oklahoma), Jocelyn Erickson (Florida), Megan Grant (UCLA), Kinzie Hansen (Oklahoma), Taryn Kern (Stanford), Lexi Kilfoyl (Oklahoma State), Baylee Klingler (Washington), Kayla Kowalik (Kentucky), Kelly Maxwell (Oklahoma), Taylor Pleasants (LSU) and Skylar Wallace (Florida).
13 present student-athletes and three former student-athletes have been chosen to symbolize the U.S. within the 2024 Japan All-Star Sequence. Amongst them, one athlete (Taryn Kern) will likely be representing the U.S. for the primary time in her profession, whereas six athletes will return to the worldwide stage after competing within the 2023 Japan All-Star Sequence. The roster consists of athletes from 4 totally different athletic conferences: SEC (six athletes), Large 12 (5 athletes), Pac-12 (4 athletes), and ACC (one athlete), who collectively symbolize 9 NCAA Division I universities. Oklahoma has the very best variety of athletes on the roster with 4, adopted by Florida, Kentucky, LSU, and Stanford with two every. Clemson, Oklahoma State, UCLA, and Washington are additionally represented with one athlete every.
Athletes have been chosen by the Girls’s Nationwide Staff Choice Committee (WNTSC) based mostly on earlier and ongoing evaluations on the collegiate ranges in addition to USA Softball Nationwide Staff occasions, trials and camps.
Schedules for every competitors might be discovered HERE.
For extra info on the USA Softball Girls’s Nationwide Staff Program, go to USASoftball.com.
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